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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777929103321

Autore

Bandmann Günter

Titolo

Early medieval architecture as bearer of meaning [[electronic resource] /] / Günter Bandmann ; translated, with an introduction, by Kendall Wallis ; afterword by Hans Josef Böker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Columbia University Press, c2005

ISBN

1-281-77458-8

9786613790934

0-231-50172-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (371 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BökerHans

WallisKendall

Disciplina

720/.94/09021

Soggetti

Architecture, Medieval

Symbolism in architecture - Europe

Christian art and symbolism - Medieval, 500-1500

Decoration and ornament, Architectural - Europe

Decoration and ornament, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Bearing Bandmann's Meaning: A Translator's Introduction -- 1. The Problem of Meaning in Architecture -- 2. The Symbolic Meaning of Buildings According to Written and Visual Sources -- 3. Historical Meaning -- 4. The Decline of Symbolic and Historical Meaning -- Afterword / Böker, Hans Josef -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

At last available in English, this classic text was originally published in Germany in 1951 and has been continuously in print since then. Gunter Bandmann analyzes the architecture of societies in western Europe up to the twelfth century that aspired to be the heirs to the Roman Empire. He examines the occurrence and recurrence of basic forms not as stylistic evolutions but as meaningful expressions of meta-material content and develops an architectural iconography of symbolic, historical, and aesthetic elements.